Learning Styles Preference of Nursing Students at Chiangrai College

Abstract

The purposes of this descriptive research were to study and compare learning styles of nursing students in different year of study at Chiangrai College. The purposive samples comprised 553 nursing students of Chiangrai College in academic year 2018. The research tools consisted of two parts of check list questionnaires, including personal information and learning styles based on Honey and Mumford concept. The content validity questionnaires tested by IOC was 0.9-1.00 and the reliability tested by KR 20 was 0.99. The data was analyzed by using descriptive statistics and inferential statistic, such as frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and One way ANOVA.

The findings were as follows: (1) the most common learning style preference of nursing students in all year of study was a Reflector style. 2) The differences between year of study and an Activist style was statistically significant at 0.05. However, there was no significant differences between year of study and a Reflector style, a Theorist style and a Pragmatic style. Therefore, nurse educators should support nursing students focusing on learning style of the students and use variety of teaching methods to improve the academic achievement.